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Roland Engineers discuss the initial concept of the TR-808 which was conceived and built in 1980. Although it was designed to create "backing tracks," creative musicians started to use the Rhythm Machine as an instrument and music changed forever. Now the evolution begins again.

Cobweb is a new library that features manipulated speech samples.
Each single sample of the library passed through a sophisticated processing chain in order to remove the original informations of the words.
What's left after processing is the sound that is hidden between the lines. It's an interesting collection of distinctive noises and syllables that don't deny their origin of the human beeing's speech but are also abstract enough to work as source material for odd soundscapes.

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